Business Analyst

The Expertise You Have

Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 5 of experience working in an agile environment on business/product analysis, defining and communicating business requirements, writing user stories, and testing new features

Ability to produce clear and concise business requirements, business process documents and support documentation using a flexible and adaptable approach, emphasizing creative/ innovative strategies

Experience with Lean Startup, Design Thinking, and Agile Methodologies and tools (Jira)

The Purpose of Your Role

The Business Analyst (BA) is a core team member at FCAT, working on one of our incubators for a particular new business opportunity. You will contribute to the project success by providing high quality analysis for an incubator, utilizing an Agile approach, the Business Analyst will work with the Product Manager, the Creative Team, and the Development team to write and review user stories, design test cases to monitor system functionality and support system enhancements. A successful candidate will be able to analyze the 3rd party/product integration aspects of business requirements and be able to effectively work with vendors to implement such requirements. A passion for FinTech and investing, and the ability to find innovative solutions for the broader market is essential.

The Skills You Bring

Collaborate with stakeholders and technical resources to create user stories and translate those stories into features that can be built by the development team

Create workflow diagrams to visually represent business processes

Identify problems in terms of business requirements and recommend modifications to the functional solution which could impact the system design

Participate in design sessions to translate customer needs into business requirements and anticipate use cases and user stories

Support to test the process in order to ensure business needs are met

Analysis of research and data to derive insights and solutions

Leverage state of the art analytical tools and technology to proactively analyze data sets to support business decisions and optimize the operating environment.

Provide insights to better understand trends in customer behavior and to provide recommendations to improve operational efficiencies.

Creation of process/data flow diagrams

Leadership and high productivity in an agile project delivery environment

Strong consultative, listening, communications and analytical skills

Critical thinking with excellent judgement and initiative

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with business and technical team members across the organization

Diversity of functional business experiences (e.g. client, operational, systems, marketing, investments, customer service) ideally in a start-up or early stage venture environment.